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Photos of the Day 10/03

An ethnic Shan Buddhist novice monk attends class at the Thone Htat monastery in Yangon, Myanmar. Thone Htat monastery houses a free school run by Buddhist monks and attended by 37 Buddhist novice monks and 10 other students. Soe Zeya/Reuters

Rex, a crocodile, which weighs 1543.2 pounds, swims across his tank at Wild Life Sydney Zoo. Rex had his first meal today after three months of hibernation. Daniel Munoz/Reuters

Gabriel Guallo of Ecuador's Quichua tribe stands with a tarantula on his face to demonstrate how he is planning to break a world record, in El Tena. Guallo hopes to carry 250 tarantulas on his body for 60 seconds during a special ceremony in February 2013 to break what he says is the existing record for most tarantulas carried on the body (240 tarantulas for 30 seconds). Guillermo Granja/Reuters

People stroll on the Bund, a famous waterfront as the symbol of town, in Shanghai, China. China celebrated its national day on Oct. 1 and people enjoy a week-long holiday. Eugene Hoshiko/AP

A Bangladeshi Buddhist woman prays in front of a burnt Buddha sculpture after it was attacked. Bangladesh's High Court issued an order to authorities requesting all religious establishments to be safeguarded following recent communal attacks at Buddhist localities and temples in Cox's Bazar, local media reported. Andrew Biraj/Reuters

Children watch as a Smurf hot air balloon is prepared for flight during a hot air balloon festival at Timna Park near the southern Israeli city of Eilat. Baz Ratner/Reuters

A woman walks on a pavement covered with autumn leaves in central Minsk, Belarus. Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

A man covers his son's ears as they watch a fireworks display as part of China's Mid-Autumn festival in Shanghai. Carlos Barria/Reuters

A child is silhouetted against the sun as he holds a flag of Pakistan's religious political party Jamaat-e-Islami in a tent during an anti-US demonstration in Karachi. Athar Hussain/Reuters

French climber Alain Robert, also known as 'Spiderman', stands on the Abbey during a recce climb in St-Maurice, Switzerland. Robert will attempt to climb the church on October 5, 2012 after a conference. Denis Balibouse/Reuters

A Bavarian herdsman leads his cattle on a path to a boat that will carry them across Lake Koenigssee near Berchtesgarden, southern Germany. The trip by boat is the only way to bring the cattle from their remote summer mountain pastures back to their homestead. Matthias Schrader/AP

Fog rolls through downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Mike Stewart/AP

A Kashmiri Muslim villager carries stacks of hay after a paddy harvest in Beerwah, some 24 miles northwest of Srinagar, India. Dar Yasin/AP

Leaf peepers are seen on the shore of Lake Chocorau, in Tamworth, N.H. Jim Cole/AP

Children squeeze lemon juice for the winner of the Order of the Smile, Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, wife of the Emir of Qatar, in Warsaw, Poland. The order's recipients, chosen by children, are required to drink a cup of lemon juice without losing their smile. Czarek Sokolowski/AP

A fresh strawberry gelato is seen at the Carpigiani Gelato University in the northern town of Anzola dell'Emilia, near Bologna. The University is bustling with foreign students who come to the laboratories to learn the ins and outs of gelato making before going back home to set up their own businesses. Stefano Rellandini/Reuters

A member of India's rural communities, including the landless, poor farmers and the tribal community, dries her cloth at a halting point during 'Jan Satyagraha,' a march to New Delhi to highlight the problems of India's landless in Gwalior, India. Altaf Qadri/AP

Troops from the Kenyan contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) sit on the back of a flat-bed military truck as they begin an advance on the Somali port city of Kismayu. Stuart Price/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Reuters

A man poses with a thumbs up sign in front of a painting at the Berlin Wall in Berlin. Wednesday marks the 22nd anniversary of German reunification, after decades of division into Soviet-controlled communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the east and the Federal Republic of Germany in the west. Lisi Niesner/Reuters

Cadets of the Fuerza Civil (Civil Force) stand in formation during a graduation ceremony in Monterrey, Mexico. Some 205 members of the Civil Force, a police unit trained by the army in areas such as intelligence and tactics, finished their eight to 12 weeks-long training to reinforce the war against organized crime. Daniel Becerril/Reuters

A Marine helicopter does a flyover and people watch as a Navy hovercraft begins its departure from Ocean Beach after a disaster response training exercise in San Francisco. The arrival of the amphibious military vehicle helped kick off this year's San Francisco Fleet Week. Eric Risberg/AP

A Free Syrian Army rebel fighter throws a petrol bomb against Syrian Army positions in the Saif Al Dawle district of Aleppo, Syria. Manu Brabo/AP

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Israel approved detaining citizens suspected of waging violence against Palestinians without trial on Sunday. It is part of a measure to find and capture who was responsible for a lethal West Bank arson attack blamed on Jewish militants.

ByDan Williams, ReutersAugust 2, 2015

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Israel's security cabinet approved on Sunday the detention of citizens suspected of waging violence against Palestinians without trial in a crackdown aimed at capturing the perpetrators of a lethal West Bank arson attack blamed on Jewish militants.